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128 - Supermarket Sweep (Patreon)

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2024-03-06 08:40:01
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2026-06
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The lads grab their carts and make straight for the turkeys as they cover four iterations of one of America’s favorite game shows: Supermarket Sweep. Topics include the history of supermarkets, the insidiousness of Whammies, and the difficulties of weaponizing 90s nostalgia in the turbulent world of the 2020s.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

Supermarket Sweep

January 17th, 1967

October 4th, 1991

Nancy & Kathy vs. Ron & Dru vs. Keah & Micki (1993)

Marina & Tim vs Stephanie & Cyndee vs Vanessa & Dustin (2001)

The New Supermarket Sweep 2020 (Season 2 Episode 7): Don't Be Twerking On My Show!

Supermarket Sweep - SNL

“An Oral History Of 'Supermarket Sweep' And Its Surprising Shelf Life” by Matthew Jacobs. Huffpost. July 31, 2020.

“The Surprising Way a Supermarket Changed the World” by Ashley Ross. Time. September 9th, 2016.

The Edsel Show - CBS-TV (October 13, 1957)

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Commercial: “Wife-B-Gone”

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It’s a Lads, Lads, Lads Cast World (British)

I think the Legs tier on Patreon needs to get an additional "all of AJ's bits that Brian edited out of the episodes" episode every month. I would definitely up my subscription for this.

MuppetImp

You Can't Do That On Television wasn't a game show, it was a Canadian sketch show for young people (and I loved it!).

Förfäders spår

the whammies are at home in the mirror; it is their address

Dergon

As someone who watched the 90s version as a kid, hell yes! Thanks for making my Wednesdays always suck a little less.

Dergon

Piggly Wiggly was first? The Hoggly Woggly guys won't like this!

Grouchiest Marxiest

Jesus Christ even the aliens are Blue-pilled now! What, did John Scalzi write this bit?

BarFly

The Chlorox ad made my eyes bug out as if I were Bill Malone flashing back to watching his buddies' planes burst into flame over the Solomon Islands.

peebee!!

went to a roller rink in Rouzerville, PA in the late aughts - your description is fucking dead on :0

Grouchiest Marxiest

As a former Missouri Synod Baptist, this episode is creating strange feelings.

TchankaSidecar

someone please tell Josh that the Meijer in west Ann Arbor stays open until midnight, he needs to know

Matt Colston

There used to be a marine base in LA. EL Toro

Andrew T. Wilson

I loved playing with my Micro Machines and watching Supermarket Sweep (followed by Designing Women) when I was a kid. This definitely did not presage anything about my gender identity. At all.

Nathan Woods

AJ there was literally a roller rink in your home town that opened 25 years before Iceoplex did. Ups N Downs was it's name, and yes Brian it very much fit that roller rink narrative: the building was put up before the street, and the buildings adjacent to it were built closer to the sidewalk. Were it not for the equally old and decrepit sign for Ups N Downs, it just looked like an extension of one of the other buildings. Parking lot was little more than an alleyway. Us normal protestant kids spent many a birthday party in both.

Amy Godliman

Hello from the British quadrant of Patreons who are now thinking about inflatable bananas and Dale Winston’s loud suit jackets.

Uncle Jam Wants You

The wife be gone ad...look, I just went through a breakup. It was felt. Also, theres a skate rink in Holt, MI call Edru Skate rink. it has statues of animals on the roof.

s

Early contender for my favorite commercial break of the year

Mason Shrader

The ad break was genuinely one of the most moving things I've heard on a podcast.

Camoose

There was a place called Great Skates in Bangor,me that was basically one of three cool places to do a party in most of Northern Maine. They had a great arcade, lazertag and skating events all the time. Sadly they went out of business al most 10 years ago. Some of my best birthday parties were there.

V Wells

Dog the bounty hunter

Jonathan V. Cann

Around 40:30 I swear I met that exact guy in a bank once

Jordyn Clementi

Truly, you are synods in the hands of an angry god.

The Cube of Orbus

In regards to what you said about society seeming to feel something coming on the horizon. A few years back there was a show called 'The Last Ship', it was all about American exceptionalism and military propaganda, but it was about a global pandemic that killed millions and caused global society to screech to a halt.....it's last episode aired November 2018

The Cube of Orbus

It was also pretty racist in its portrayal of non-American characters, for the record.

LucindaCordelia

That ad break was *crushing*. Now I'm crying and missing my wife at work :( Very well done.

Ms. Charlie

Forgive me father for I have synod. Is this anything

BOYSAREBACKIN.TOWN

Hearing Johnny Gilbert say my name was one of the highlights of my life so far. Also I got some other Jeopardy alums into this podcast